Green server build

Ti Leggett leggett at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Aug 27 22:20:53 CDT 2002


You got it! I'd even recommend naming schemes like vv2-20020827 (i.e.,
vv2 installed Aug, 27 2002) for install dirs.

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 17:37, Robert Olson wrote:
> Very cool Ti - thanks.
> 
> It sounds like you'd recommend that we install things like stable snapshots 
> of the new VV code in /disks/space0?
> 
> At 11:54 AM 8/27/2002 -0500, Ti Leggett wrote:
> >Alrighty, I *think* the green server build is a go. If you want to login
> >to one of the green servers, please try vv2.mcs.anl.gov and hammer away
> >at it. And please let me know if there are any problems or if you really
> >dig it.
> >
> >Here's what it has:
> >
> >- Globus-2.0 installed in /my/packages/globus (set GLOBUS_LOCATION
> >there)
> >- GPT-1.0 installed in /my/packages/gpt (set GPT_LOCATION there)
> >- python1.5 and python2.2
> >- wxGTK and wxPython
> >- pyGlobus-0.9.6 installed in /my/packages/pyglobus, but there's a link
> >to it from /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyGlobus so you shouldn't
> >have to do anything special to use it
> >- apache with mod_perl, mod_python, mod_ssl, mod_dav, and php. (this
> >still needs to be configured but it should be working and running)
> >- MySQL with perl, python, and php bindings (if you want a database let
> >me know and I'll create it)
> >- PostgreSQL with perl, python, and php bindings (if you want a database
> >created let me know)
> >- sudo (with a *very* limited set of people authorized for it)
> >- Group writeable local disk at /disks/space0 (this is where you should
> >put files that you want anyone to be able to use)
> >- There is no NFS (Yeah!)
> >- Home filesystems are mounted via samba from glacier at login time, so
> >that means your environment will look the same as on green machines,
> >*BUT* no other users home dirs are available unless they are logged.
> >This is stronger incentive to use the group writeable storage space.
> >- I'm trying to make these machines single purpose servers or at the
> >very most serving several coupled or closely related services. Hopefully
> >this will aid in finding projects and code a little easier. i.e., If
> >you're looking for VV2 code a good place to look would be
> >vv2:/disks/space0
> >- ADSM backup is on the way but not there yet.
> >- There's possibly other things that might be installed as well that I
> >forgot, a good thing to do might be to do a "rpm -qa | sort | less" to
> >see what all is installed. My aim is install packages either via RPM or
> >in /my/packages so that it makes finding things much easier.
> >
> >One other note on the databases. The databases on each machine are meant
> >for local development testing (doesn't mean it has to be only for that).
> >If you need a production database, I'd suggest asking systems for one on
> >yeah.mcs.anl.gov.
> 





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